Extinguisher for candles.



AFPLIUATION FILED AUG. 25.*1902.

' 11o. MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented May 19, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD V. TODENWARTH, OF FULDA, GERMANY.

ExTlNc'uisHERMl-OR CANDLES.

SBECIFLICATION forming part'of Letters Patent No. 728,427, dated May 19, 1903.

Application led August 25,1992. Serial No.,120,943. (No model.)

lb @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD. voN TODEN- WARTH, merchant, a subject of the German Emperor, and a resident of 6 Wilhelmstrasse,

Fulda, in the German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ext-inguishers for Candles, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to an improved extinguisher for candles which oers the ad-4 vantage that it acts not only automatically but extinguishes the candle thoroughly and of a tube a, which can be used as a socket for the candle. a plate b is attached, .which has one end c bent upwardly. On the two long sides of the plate b projections d e are bent upward and then horizontally so as to form ribs over which grip theI folded edges of a plate f, adapted to slide forward and backward on said ribs.

carries a pin h, around which a spring 7l is coiled, which has a longitudinal arm 7c. On

Fig. 2 is a top View of the 4 To the upper end of this tube ot To the lower surface of the'platey b a laterally-projecting arm g is fixed,which j the candle the sliding plate f is moved sidewise,-so-that the opening of the tube a becomes free. Hereby the arm lc' of the spring 1l is moved backward by the pin fm., so that it presses against this pin and presses the slid- As ing plates f finally against the candle.

soon as the'candle is burned down to the up- `for the candle, a horizontal .plate on the upper end of said tube prolongated at one end, lateral projections on the long sides of said plate bent upward and then horizontally to vform guide-ribs, a sliding plate gripping with litsvfolded edges over said guide-ribs, a laterally-projecting arm 'fixed to the lower surface of the tube-plate, a v'ertical pin on said arm, a spring coiled around said pin, a pin on the upper surface of the sliding plate serving asfabutment for the free end of said spring, substantially as described and shown andfor the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

R; v. TODENWARTH Witnesses:

, V. R. BATERDEN, F. IsLER. 

